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Impact of school quality on educational attainment : evidence from Finnish high schools
Kortelainen, Mika; Pääkkönen, Jenni; Pursiainen, Heikki - 2014
number of graduates. We use each pupil's comprehensive school grades to control for previous education / pupil quality. Also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492710
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Sibling spillover effects in school achievement
Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2014
We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test scores across three subjects observed at age 11 and 16 and the variation in the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434603
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Peer effects identified through social networks : evidence from Uruguayan schools
Melo, Gioia de - 2014
This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370135
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Long-term effects of environmental policies on educational performance : evidence from China
Khelifa, Siwar; He, Jie - 2023
beneficial effects are found to be accentuated among girls and children born to fathers with low education levels, suggesting …. Projecting forward, results also suggest better future higher education and labor market outcomes. The findings are robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014416188
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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations
Bach, Maximilian - 2021
This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794438
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Mentoring and schooling decisions: causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269722
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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil
Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021
students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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Using predictive analytics to track students : evidence from a seven-college experiment
Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodríguez, Julio - 2021
Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550216
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311042
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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464023